When it comes to discussion of the most delicious wines of Spain, Ribero del Duero is not a region that is commonly cited. Of the principal regions making top class wines, which include red, white and rosado, it is Rioja which occupies more airtime than all the rest...
In my last journal I tried to pin down the rationale behind my self- imposed adventure into food independence and define the methods I thought might achieve an alternative link with the culinary world beyond. Privacy and contemplation were to be my watchwords and...
As I mentioned the other week, I received an invitation to undertake a brief but intense tour of a few dozen Chateaux in the hallowed wine regions around the port of Bordeaux. I spotted a gap between airline strikes, volcanic eruptions and my own less dramatic...
I am about to turn a small area of grassland, peppered with some half a dozen spindly, lacklustre fruit trees, into a cornucopia of food growing excellence that will provide family, both near and extended, with a range of ingredients capable of emulating all of the...
I got a telephone call recently that spun me back through two decades. It came in the form of an old friend from London, now residing in Suffolk, who invited me down to his part of the world to ‘do lunch’. I had not heard the phrase used as an active verb...
